Vermont · Nonprofit
TINY SEED PROJECT INC
TINY SEED PROJECT INC (Vermont) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,680,069 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS ($390,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.1M
- Funders on record
- 42
- Grants received
- $1.7M
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Tiny Seed Project Inc does
Mission
We empower community projects that conserve the environment, encourage creativity, and strengthen communities. We do this through our nonprofit status and by providing exceptional administrative support
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The fiscal sponsorship program enables community projects to raise funds for their respective missions without the complexities and overhead of incorporating as a separate non-profit organization. These projects may be eligible to apply for government, foundation, and corporate grants that require 501(c)(3) status. These fiscal sponsorships can cover one-time projects or range for a longer period, and the sponsored projects must have missions that are aligned with the organization; to encourage creativity, conserve the environment, and strengthen communities. During 2025, the organization fiscally sponsored 33 projects and each project has its own agreement whereby the organization receives a sponsorship fee of 10%.
$1,368,949 spent$1,908,244 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,368,949.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $464k to $1.1M (+136%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 30% · 2022 19% · 2023 3% · 2024 17% · 2025 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of TINY SEED PROJECT INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Emily Cayer
Executive director
Board chair
Rebecca Ramsey
Chair/president
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $138k → $314k.
14 of 42 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 65% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of TINY SEED PROJECT INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 42 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
TINY SEED PROJECT INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
85% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund TINY SEED PROJECT INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 51% · 2022 19% · 2023 24% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
65% of TINY SEED PROJECT INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $591k that is directly attributable, 87% of it comes from funders outside Vermont, across 13 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
TINY SEED PROJECT INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,074 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,074 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding TINY SEED PROJECT INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $278k on record — $247k federal, $32k state.
- Department of Agriculture$247k
- Other Grants$28k
- Grants$4k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like TINY SEED PROJECT INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Vermont
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TINY SEED PROJECT INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds TINY SEED PROJECT INC?
- TINY SEED PROJECT INC (Vermont) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,680,069 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS ($390,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does TINY SEED PROJECT INC have?
- IRS filings report 42 organizations giving $1,680,069 in grants to TINY SEED PROJECT INC, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TINY SEED PROJECT INC?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS is the largest funder on record, with $390,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TINY SEED PROJECT INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Vermont. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 42 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing